Bizarre power problem mystery

[Rustys]

when I put PC to sleep there are no LED lights on or any sign of power but from what I remember in the past you should have some form of LED light/sign of power in sleep mode yes?

Yes on some systems the power button will change color/flash and or both.

[capwn]

Sort of figured this out finally, left it at a shop and they said it came on every time! Took it home, tried it in the kitchen and it worked. Tried it in the usual office area and it didn’t. Started unplugging other devices and it worked. Plugged them in and it wouldn’t etc. So it’s something to do with my apartments power supply? too much power on a circuit or something?

[jmarket]

It definitely sounds like an outlet problem, and it sounds like you’re plugging too much stuff into the outlet overloading it. Try splitting your devices between outlets.

[veeg]

Do you have an update for us?

[capwn]

Yeah I do have an update, it seemed fine for a few days but it has come back again. Sometimes it won’t turn on, so I unplug everything and take it to another room, sometimes that can get it going again but not always. Right now the best method is to HOLD the power button it whilst clickiing the back I/O switch on and off a few times. After coming back from the repair shop I really thought it might be a circuit overload problem but it’s not because if it doesn’t power on, unplugging other things doesn’t resolve it.

It really is the most horrible ghastly kind of PC problem I’ve ever encountered. I wish something was just broken, like the PSU but obviously it isn’t that. I can take it into a repair shop but as I’ve said, works fine for them so that’s useless.

[veeg]

Yeah I do have an update, it seemed fine for a few days but it has come back again. Sometimes it won’t turn on, so I unplug everything and take it to another room, sometimes that can get it going again but not always. Right now the best method is to HOLD the power button it whilst clickiing the back I/O switch on and off a few times. After coming back from the repair shop I really thought it might be a circuit overload problem but it’s not because if it doesn’t power on, unplugging other things doesn’t resolve it.

It really is the most horrible ghastly kind of PC problem I’ve ever encountered. I wish something was just broken, like the PSU but obviously it isn’t that. I can take it into a repair shop but as I’ve said, works fine for them so that’s useless.

Thanks for the update…yeah those kind of issue’s can be bothersome..

[veeg]

Any progress?

[capwn]

Not yet, can’t imagine myself ever getting it to work. Unless I get a fully new built PC I think.

[veeg]

Ok.. one more thing you could do to rule out any grounding issue.. You could use the card board method… Take out the hardware in the case and re-assemble the parts on a table with card board on it.. Then power up …what happens? If it works correctly then it is probably a grounding issue, if it doesn’t work proper,then it is a hardware issue and you will have to track that faulty part down..

[Rustys]

@capwn do you still need help on this?

[veeg]

Do you have an update for us? After 48 Hrs this thread will be closed.